freebsd 6.1 SIOCGIFMEDIA on rl0 no longer works

[Stephen Clark]

Update:

We reverted to freevrrpd 0.8.7 which seems to work.

Steve

Stephen Clark wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>We have been running 4.9 and using freevrrpd 0.9.3, which worked great,
>- the latest in the ports tree. We are switching
>to 6.1 released and we now get the the following error from freevrrpd:
>freevrrpd[6241]: cannot do ioctl, intertface is faulty: Device not
>configured
>
>This is a bogus message since the interface is configured up and running.
>What changed in 6.1 to cause this?
>
>The message comes from the following code in freevrrpd:
>
>int vrrp_moncircuit_interface_status(int sd, char *if_name)
>{
>     struct ifmediareq ifmr;
>
>     if (sd < 0) {
>         syslog(LOG_ERR, "socket descriptor must be != -1");
>         return -1;
>     }
>     bzero(&ifmr, sizeof(ifmr));
>     strncpy(ifmr.ifm_name, if_name, sizeof(ifmr.ifm_name));
>
>     if (ioctl(sd, SIOCGIFMEDIA, (caddr_t)&ifmr) < 0) {
>         if (errno == EINVAL) {
>             syslog(LOG_ERR, "your NIC doesn't support SIOCGIFMEDIA
>ioctl: %s", strerror(errno));
>             return -3;
>         }
>         else
>             syslog(LOG_ERR, "cannot do ioctl, intertface is faulty: %s",
>strerror(errno));
>         return -2;
>     }
>
>     if (ifmr.ifm_status & IFM_AVALID) {
>         if (ifmr.ifm_status & IFM_ACTIVE)
>             return 1;
>         else
>             return 0;
>     }
>
>     /* Interface has no carrier cable problem ? */
>     return 0;
>}
>
>Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>
>  
>


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